This course will allow students to develop a facility for chord/melody playing in which the chords and the melody are played at the same time. That’s actually easier than it sounds! We’ll use that approach with several tunes of Duke Ellington who has been called America’s greatest composer. And, we will work somewhat differently with melody and chords on some other jazz tunes from The Great American Song Book, touching on the swing, bebop, and other jazz eras.

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